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Apple TV+’s new series “Your Friends and Neighbors” opens with the image of its protagonist, Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm), laid out in a pool of...

CHAMPAIGN, IL (April 1, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the final three films screening at thi...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Someone either dies, or goes to Hell, or is otherwise handpicked to become a bounty hunter for—get...

This Friday, April 4th, we will mark the 2025 Day4Empathy, 11 years since the passing of Roger Ebert. Roger famously said that movies were a...

Every once in a while, a game comes along that ignites a culturally divisive fire. Do a Google search on “The Last of Us, Part II” to have y...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX“Black Hawk Down““Blade Runner““Den of Thieves 2: Pantera““Do the Right Thing““How to Have Sex““Kraven the Hunter““The...

Director/co-screenwriter Karen Morey and co-screenwriter/star Terence Chen wanted to make a romantic comedy about romantic comedies, a meta-...

Death and desire make for strange bedfellows in the films of Alain Guiraudie. Predominantly set in cloistered, rural communities whose c...

Apple TV+’s “Mythic Quest” has been one of the streaming company’s best comedies, an underrated examination of the increasingly difficult wo...

This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year. Here are t...

It’s so easy to get cynical about the vaunted “oner.” A staple of 21st-century film and television these days, the ambitious one-shot sequen...

Here’s how you know you’re having a bad night: Your boss dies under questionable circumstances during a State Dinner at the White House, and...

A poignant, slow-fading comedy about two teams running out of time, Carson Lund’s “Eephus” chronicles one final game for an amateur New Engl...

Annapurna Sriram’s feature debut “Fu*cktoys,” about a sex worker earning a living while undoing a curse, is farce, psychodrama, theological...

While there are thrilling and sensational documentaries that feel right at home in the sun-baked and bustling streets of Austin (“We Are Sto...

On Fri. Jan. 20, 1961, CBS aired the first and only episode of a new game show, “You’re in the Picture.” A week later, the ill-fated show’s...

Links to all of our coverage this year, separated by author, in order of publication:BRIAN TALLERICOIt EndsThe ThreesomeCape...

When documentaries center on one person, breadth is often sacrificed for depth. Thankfully, for the most part, three docs at this year’s SXS...

I’ve found that at this year’s SXSW, it’s easier to spot the thematic throughlines that exist across projects. It’s a testament to the progr...

Man, Brian Tyree Henry can do anything. The star of “Atlanta,” “Causeway,” “Widows,” and “The Fire Inside” has become legitimately one of th...

Filmmakers often underestimate how important it can be to feel their love for their characters. When a writer/director sees the people on-sc...

A lot of films have tried to do their own version of the plot of 1993’s “Groundhog Day,” the first Hollywood feature that combined videogame...

A film finally hit this year’s relatively down SXSW like a bolt of lightning, producing multiple in-film applause breaks and a standing ovat...

The Oscar-nominated live-action short “A Lien,” directed by David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, is a cry for help. Not just from the characters. No...

Last month, I released my third book, “The Black Book: An Anthony Mann Reader.” (You can order your copy here.)To celebrate a month of M...